Courses Taught by Prof.
Binford
Fall 2008
GEO
2200 Physical Geography; and
GIS
5306: Geographic Information Systems Applications in Environmental
Systems
Spring 2009
GIS 4021c Air Photo
Interpretation, and
GEO 4938/6938 Biogeography
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Many smoke plumes are visible in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in this SeaWiFS image. Dust can also be seen blowing offshore in Namibia.
Link to the Land Use and
Environmental
Change Institute (LUECI)
Link to the Interdisciplinary Program in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Florida
Links to Interesting Remote Sensing and GIS Resources
Links to Interesting Paleoecology and Landscape Ecology Resources
Links to Interesting Land
Use/Land Cover Change Research Resources
RESEARCH NOTES

Prof. Binford engaged in field work near Kibale National Park, Uganda
NSF Grant BCS-0433787:
Economic Growth, Social Inequality, and Environmental Change in
Thailand and Cambodia. SES-HSD Agents of Change Program. 15 September
2004 - 15 February 2008. (under construction). http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mbinford/thailand_cambodia/HSD_project.html
Collaborative Research: Consequences of Parks for Land Use,
Livelihood Diversification, and Biodiversity in
NASA Grant NAG-5-9331:
Land-Use and
Land-Cover Change: Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Land Ownership, and Carbon
Storage
Patterns in the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain Region of the U.S.
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Earth Science, Land
Use/Land
Cover Change Program. 1 May 2000 – 31 December 2003.
Recent Publications about
Thailand Environment-Economics Interactions
Recent Publications about Lake Titicaca
Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization. Quaternary Research 47:235-248.
Mainland Southeast Asia
- The Study area for Dr. Binford's collaborative project
with
Dr.Alan Kolata and Dr. Robert Townsend of the University of Chicago.
From www.earthscienceworld.org: This true-color image of mainland Southeast Asia was acquired on November 30, 2001, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The light brown Mekong River winds its way through the center of the Cambodian jungle and into southern Vietnam. The dark blue patch to the left of the river at the bottom of the image is the Tonle Sap. Literally translated to mean Great Lake, the Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. During the rainy season from May to October, the lake will more than double in size growing from its wintertime extent of 2,500 square kilometers to over 13,000 square kilometers.
Image of Lakes Titicaca and Poopo Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center